sardine
Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Compensation
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- Department
- Sardine
- Posted
- 2026-04-28
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Insurance
- Regulatory
Benefits & Perks
and Year-end break Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employ
Requirements
7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level.
Hands-on experience working with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub) in production environments.
A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity.
Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus.
Compensation & Benefits
Generous compensation in cash and equity
Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents -
US and Canada specific
Responsibilities
You will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for both our Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams.
This position involves driving technical strategy, optimizing mission-critical infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and assuming broad ownership of a platform that processes massive volumes of data in real-time.
Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy.
Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine.
Design optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers across our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem.
Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations.
About the Company
We are a leader in fraud prevention and AML compliance. Our platform uses device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and AI to stop fraud before it happens. Today, over 300 banks, retailers, and fintechs worldwide use Sardine to stop identity fraud, payment fraud, account takeovers, and social engineering scams. We have raised $145M from world-class investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Activant, Visa, Experian, FIS, and Google Ventures.